16 Feb 2011

Bouldering in Ireland Guidebook Competition


At last!!! Dave Flanagan's long-awaited guide to bouldering in Ireland is out. Two copies dropped through the letterbox this morning to great excitement in the Robinson household. 
Front Cover
This is a stunning user-friendly guide, which truly does justice to Ireland's wonderful landscape and the bouldering opportunities which are on offer. The maps are clean and contain all the necessities to get you there and park up. The number of problems per grade is indicated in a colour-coded key for each area. Many of the photographs are stunning and the sheer passion of the boulderers in the pics for the local rock is both evident and strangely contagious. The large numbers of different climbers shown on the problems of all grades is a refreshing change from guidebooks showing just the great and the good. Get on the internet, buy a copy & book the ferry for your trip right now! 

Within the guidebook are detailed all the major and minor bouldering areas across the length and breadth of the Emerald Isle including Glendalough and The Wicklow
Mountains, The Reeks, The Burren, Connemara, North West Donegal, Inishowen
Peninsula, Fair Head, The Mournes and many more.

Contents:
Over 1700 problems in 90 areas
Grades from Font 3 to 8b
Granite, gritstone, gabbro, limestone, sandstone, schist, quartzite and
dolerite

100 maps, 140 photo-topos and detailed directions to get you to the problems
Over 150 colour photos of the best problems
256 pages of full color in an A5 landscape format
Contains areas that have never been documented before including Brimstones,
Thur Mountain, Ayton’s Cave, Doagh Strand, Windy Gap, Larry The Goats and
Pierce’s Castle.


Win!! The sender of the best bouldering photo to lee@betaguides.com will receive a free copy courtesy of betaguides and the author. Competition closes St Patrick's Day (17th March).

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